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THOMAS C. RICHARDS, OF NEW Y O R'K', N. Y. Letters Patent No. 72,905, dated December 31, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTAGHING ORNAMENTAL HEADS TO- ruins, scssws, a.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. RICHARDS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and'useful Improvement in Attaching Ornamental Heads to Nails, Screws, &c. and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, which my invention may be distinguis and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

This invention relates to a new and improved mode of attaching ornamental heads to nails, screws, &c.,

whereby said head may, with the greatest facility, be applied to the screw or nail after the same has been driven or screwed in a. wall or other fixture.

The object of the invention is to 0 will admit of the ornamental head bei sheet of drawings 7 Figure 1 represents a plan view of the under side of the ornamented head, and

Figure 2, a sectional view throughthe line x :v, fig, 1. 7 Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the drawings.

hed from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim btain an economical means for effecting the object, as well as one which ng adjusted expeditiously on the nail or screw. In the accompanying A represents an ornamental head for a nail or screw, head is composed of a socket, a, struck up out of a single piece of sheet metal, and having the ornamented part b, which may he of glass, porcelain, or other material, fitted in it, and bearing against wooden or other filling, e. A recess or groove upon the under side of the head is formed out of a separate piece of metal, the sides of the metal being turned over as shown at ff, and one end notched at each side and turned over to form the stop This piece of metal may be secured to the under side or bottom of the socket by solder or otherwise. It will be seen that after the nailB is driven into the wall or the head of the screw with the greatest facility.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent Attaohingornamental heads to nails and screws by means 0 nail or screw, composed of-a separate piece of metal attached to the under side of the ornamcntedhead, as herein shown and described. v

, THOMAS C. RICHARDS.

Witnesses 7 WM. F. MGNAMARA, ALEX. F. Roisnn'rs.

wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvement, by

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